chargirlgenius (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chargirlgenius) wrote2009-05-14 03:30 pm
chargirlgenius) wrote2009-05-14 03:30 pm
Link parking in honor of Bike to Work day
Heh. No pun intended.
http://www.carfreediet.com/
I don’t think we could ever be a car free family, but it’s interesting to think about going car-lite. If Jeff and/or I worked in Crystal City (not at all out of the question), and we lived in Arlington or someplace central, I could see dropping down to one car. Sure, Arlington is expensive to live in, but owning that second and third car is expensive too.
http://www.bikesatwork.com/carfree/cost-of-car-ownership.html
This link has a calculator that estimates the monthly cost of car ownership*. If I leave in their defaults, but cut the gas and oil way down (since I live close to work), and the repairs and maintenance (since Jeff does most of it), we could still afford almost $100k more worth of house. Which, handy enough, makes living in Arlington *almost* within reach.
Illuminating.
I’d keep the minivan. It’s handy for almost all of our needs – hauling my new wood floor home from Lowes, going to events, carrying the boys and another person, whatever we need. I like that the Jetta gets 50 mpg, but if we were car-lite, the goal would be to drive as little as possible anyway.
*Yep, it’s from a pro-bike site, and therefore suspect. But the numbers correspond well to info that I’ve seen elsewhere.
http://www.carfreediet.com/
I don’t think we could ever be a car free family, but it’s interesting to think about going car-lite. If Jeff and/or I worked in Crystal City (not at all out of the question), and we lived in Arlington or someplace central, I could see dropping down to one car. Sure, Arlington is expensive to live in, but owning that second and third car is expensive too.
http://www.bikesatwork.com/carfree/cost-of-car-ownership.html
This link has a calculator that estimates the monthly cost of car ownership*. If I leave in their defaults, but cut the gas and oil way down (since I live close to work), and the repairs and maintenance (since Jeff does most of it), we could still afford almost $100k more worth of house. Which, handy enough, makes living in Arlington *almost* within reach.
Illuminating.
I’d keep the minivan. It’s handy for almost all of our needs – hauling my new wood floor home from Lowes, going to events, carrying the boys and another person, whatever we need. I like that the Jetta gets 50 mpg, but if we were car-lite, the goal would be to drive as little as possible anyway.
*Yep, it’s from a pro-bike site, and therefore suspect. But the numbers correspond well to info that I’ve seen elsewhere.